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People Are Posting Their Refugee Stories After Trump’s #MuslimBan, And They’ll Break Your Heart
When Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday banning citizens of Muslim-majority countries from entering the US, and suspending the Refugee Admissions Program, he did a lot more than just anger migrant crisis activists.
The Muslim ban order has left legal US residents stranded in their home countries, or in airports along the way, simply because they hold passports from Iran, Iraq, or one of five other countries on Trump's list. These are people with homes, family, and friends in the US whom they are now separated from for at least 90 days, all in the name of preventing "foreign terrorist entry." Let's not forget about the thousands of refugees in Syria and elsewhere whose dreams of finding safety and peace are now crushed, and who may very well meet their deaths before the anti-Muslim ban is lifted.
Massive equal rights protests erupted at major airports across the nation, and the Trump administration is already buried in lawsuits related to the travel restrictions. Parts of the ban preventing the movement of Green-card holders have reportedly been lifted, but the President's discriminating actions have already torn apart families across the world and doomed the lives of others.
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That is absolutely awful. I'm so sorry this is happening to you. If you don't matter in the US, come to NZ. You'll matter to us here!
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It is not just this ban, but most kinds of nationalism, protectionism, banning, or in sum easy solutions to complex problems that will do more harm than good. Just look at the Brexit. The world is too complex to just say that is black and what is white and to try to only have one of them.
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I hope every one makes it back ok and as soon as possible! Best wishes from Germany!
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More than 10,000 people are killed with guns each year in the US, yet Trump refuses the idea of a registry for gun owners.
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Zero fatal attacks were carried out by immigrants from the seven Muslim-majority countries targeted by the ban.
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How is it possible Trump can't see how much pain is going to cause (or, better say, remain cold as ice at it)?!!
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Not just one crazy man but millions of crazy people who voted for him knowing very well of his agenda. And the millions of people who are elated with his muslim ban right now. Don't just blame him for what's happening. Hitler was democratically voted chancellor too. They want exactly what is happening right now and what is going to happen in the next 4 years, that's why they voted for him. Half of America is rotten to the core.
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I pity your pathetic outlook on life MK, I hope someone shows you the same narrow minded attitude you seem so intent on sharing.
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Zuckerberg should ban Trump from Facebook, maybe that would get his attention.
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Why this piece of garbage is here?? This guy posted this tweet before the US order touched him personally: Untitled2-...3c-png.jpg
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https://www.boredpanda.com/empathy-message-for-people-who-are-affected-by-mr-trumps-executive-order/
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This is a sad reminder of Hitler's Germany after 1939. There were a few who got out early, went to Portugal where they could sail for the U.S. Some got to England via merchant ships and fishing trawlers. The Netherlands hid Jews, and many small towns suffered the consequences; their mayors were hung in the public square. Austria and Poland did not protect their Jews who had lived there since birth. Homes and shops were looted, bank accounts were frozen and looted. I don't know what will happen to those stranded in airports. Their homes and incomes are gone; they have no way to return, and no way to move forward. This man, Trump, is a descendant of a German named Drumft who came here and made a real estate fortune. Trump is German; his wife is an immigrant with a fake visa. His oldest son is in Mumbai bribing officials to erect a Tower on land fill. Tillerson's long friendship with Putin will destroy NATO.
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I am astonished to see how some Americans, now we can safely separate the good ones from the bad ones by calling the latter lot "trumpers", do not seem to grasp the fact that AMERICA, oh great HOMELAND, exists beacuse of immigrants of all sorts (called colonists), and if someone were to study their genealogy they'll discover that they are every bit American as a teabag (pun intended). Banning won't stop crazy people from blowing things up or from killing others and it certainly "won't make America great again" simply because Trump chose to point the finger and blame on an entire ethnicity. In my opinion the real danger here is a r******d entitled prick who somehow made it to the presidential chair.
The amount of people in the comments agreeing with Trump is really troubling.
In my country, if you even want to go on a simple vacation to the US, you are totally humiliated in the American embassy before you get the stupid visa... What is this country, a promised land?! I don't think so. I can spend my money somewhere else, but I'm furious that there are still places where I'm considered WORSE.
Trump is the embodiment of our ugliest darkest fears and worries. He has given voice to the darkness. All he did was make a simple plea to our most basic fears and look what happened. Many many were duped! My heart goes out to all those affected. As a white British male Teacher who has worked all over the Middle East and currently lives in the Middle East, I would like to state clearly that Arabs, Muslims and Islam have unfairly bad press in the Western World. They are warm, generous and exceedingly kind people. I have never experienced such warmth and generosity until I came to the Arab world. Arabs......you rock! If you watch and absorb Western media unquestioningly then you are indoctrinated and as big a part of the problem as Trump. Leave the main land, travel and talk to people and see for yourself. Biggest sympathies to all those affected. Trump has no place in history.
too bad we can't send trump back to whatever planet he came from
You wanna go on this road Trump? Okay, then take things on the right order: every person that is not a Native Anerican (and by that I mean one of the people that were mass murdered for the pleasure of a couple of shity white trashes) must leave the American territory and is forbidden to ever come back there. Ban everyone or ban no one. Give back the land to its true owners and go back on your ancestors lands.
dont worry guys, this dude will go down soon. He is building enemies all around him
Is there someone out there - who is much more smarter than us, has a lot power and influence than us - can stop this madness? He is cruel. I'm crying right now. I wish I could do something beside staring on my monitor reading the article
I feel powerless. All I am doing is reading this and letting this happen. I feel horrible not just that these things are happening to these people, but also me not being able to do anything about this. Is there any sort of way to at least help stop this. ( Y . Y )
"Do you understand the pain we're going through? There is no need to leave us beaten black and blue. " ♬♪ No, but really, according to Trump logic he should be the first one to "go back to England". Not to mention his counter-productive measures putting the USA into state of emergency. People are already protesting all over the world, this is gonna get bigger if he, and whoever allowed him such moves, stays blind.
How many more times? It is NOT a ban on muslims. It's a ban based on a list of terror linked countries (which by the way was created by the Obama administration). Where was the outrage when Obama banned all Iraqi refugees for 6 months (DOUBLE what Trump has ordered) back in 2011? And if your answer can only be "he isn't president anymore" like that erases 8 years of history; 8 years of your life where you probably didn't blink at the very same situation, you've got some screws loose. Another irony - Trump has been president barely a week but that didn't stop you all attacking him before the inauguration. But when it comes to Obama, it doesn't matter anymore right?
I'm from Germany. If i and a lot of my fellow citizens also share our refugee stories we would be banned from this site.
America is not U.S., it's a continent! I'm stuffed with suprematist minds. We should start to say Brazil of America, Canada of America, etc
Are any of you familiar with Thomas Paine's "The Rights of Man"? He's got a lot of good ideas, hint, hint. You'd think for a country founded on revolution, that the citizens of the U.S. would be more familiar with it. Maybe it's all that meddling with the education system - didn't teach history right.
These are so heartbreaking. I am only 13, and I have no say in anything. But, I truly believe that Trump's choices are rather reckless. My best friend is Muslim, and because of this ban, her father may not come home from a trip to Turkey. I feel so bad for her, and everyone else affected by this ban. God bless them.
Why, if some have been here for years, why didn't they become legal? Hmmm
here is something none of you idiots are any one of you citizens you said you lived here for 7 years didn't have time to become a citizen stay where you are
its only until the vetting process can be overhauled. Obama did it other presidents have done it sorry for the inconvenience but OUR security is more important than feelings right now
Obama sign the same executive orders denying illegal immigrants from the same 7 countries but never followed throw. Trump is following throw the his campaign promises and this is why Americans voted him in. Did these individuals come to America legally or illegally??? There's your answer. It doesn't matter if the are nice people if they came here illegally they broke the law!!! And that's on them not the US!! Now if they came to the US legally and followed all procedures to stay in the US this is a problem that should be corrected quickly.
SHUT THE H*LL UP> You all knew about the order BEFORE you went but went anyway. I didn't hear of any of this SH*T when Obama did the same thing in 2011.
You all knew about the order BEFORE you went but went anyway. SHUT THE H*LL UP!
This is really old news. This has been happening for a very long time. Ask why are they blasting the stories now? Not what u think?
What I'm don't understand is why these people have become American citizens by becoming naturalised to that country, then they wouldn't be having this problem
This is sad. There are both good and bad people in this world. One person might kill animals and another might spend their life saving animals. Same goes for everyone. Throwing out every muslim even the innocent ones is not fair.
what troubles me, this site had zero complaints about president barrack obama...and if you think a guy like that didn't have bad policies and did damage, you have ZERO critical thinking skills. now, back to your indignant trump bashing.
Nigel, you actually BLANKED out "homo" in homophobe... are you really, actually, serious?
This is probably the first time I mind having the "kittenificator".
Any single story underlines that to today's problems there are no simple solutions. In fact, these simple solutions will do more bad to innocent people than they do to stop bad people. It is particularly sad that this is only noticed if really harsh action like now is taken. Other, less harsh issues are just accepted, even though they are extremely annoying and again do not contribute anything to solving problems. Anyone still questioning why you cannot bring liquids in containers > 100 ml through airport security? It was a seaminly easy solution to increase security many years ago, and probably even justified for a while. Nowadays it is obsolete, but we got to live with it.
Some if these stories make me suspect that they are being held hostage by the country themselves. Especially Iran. Easy to do and easy to pass blame.
Question: How many have the green card, how many are legal? Just asking, don;t get your panty hose all wadded up.
How many have a green card and if they do, for how long? How many are legal? How many are pushing their visas to the limit and beyond? Just asking, no need to get your panty hose all wadded up.
How many of these people are American citizens ???? If you haven't taken the time to become an American citizen and become a real part of this countries citizenship then Oh well........
I am with you!! #HeadScarfProtest https://www.boredpanda.com/empathy-message-for-people-who-are-affected-by-mr-trumps-executive-order/
The lead story is based on a false narrative. The woman has not been deported. She has been refused re-entry, for 90 days. Unfortunate for her, but it is simply wrong to say she was deported. Disingenuous twisting of facts lends no credibility to the issue.
[img]https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/trump-muslimban-refugee-stories-7-588efb6776ea8__700-1.jpg[/img] [img]https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/825173219103621120-png__700-1.jpg[/img] [img]https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/825457796573454338-png__700-1.jpg[/img] [img]https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/825385797490610176-png__700-1.jpg[/img] [img]https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/trump-muslimban-refugee-stories-8-588f0bc55b482__700-1.jpg[/img] [img]https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/825405243567513600-png__700-1.jpg[/img] Asked their view on Trump? WTF!!! You just banned the Muslim, and what does that make it different. If I said I support him and I won't be deport? GTFOH!!! F**k him!!
All these sob stories of people not getting back into the US, 5years 7 years 10 years here etc, property owners business owners etc. I have a question for you, if you like it here so much why haven't you become a "legal citizen " ?
Its not a muslim ban morons. why these 7 out 50 majority muslim countries???????
It is my understanding that this is a limited time ban. Just like all the others before it. Is that not so? And I realize I'm being nit-picky, but the woman in the first post was not deported. She left the county and was not allowed back in. There is a huge difference. And if she has been here for seven years, why didn't she become a citizen and thus have an American passport?
This absolutely breaks my heart. (P.S I'm not trying to sound racist or anything but if you look back to history, aren't white people like the real immigrants here.) (plus they should start talking about god because if they are actually christians, then they should know god was American).
I am astonished to see how some Americans, now we can safely separate the good ones from the bad ones by calling the latter lot "trumpers", do not seem to grasp the fact that AMERICA, oh great HOMELAND, exists beacuse of immigrants of all sorts (called colonists), and if someone were to study their genealogy they'll discover that they are every bit American as a teabag (pun intended). Banning won't stop crazy people from blowing things up or from killing others and it certainly "won't make America great again" simply because Trump chose to point the finger and blame on an entire ethnicity. In my opinion the real danger here is a r******d entitled prick who somehow made it to the presidential chair.
The amount of people in the comments agreeing with Trump is really troubling.
In my country, if you even want to go on a simple vacation to the US, you are totally humiliated in the American embassy before you get the stupid visa... What is this country, a promised land?! I don't think so. I can spend my money somewhere else, but I'm furious that there are still places where I'm considered WORSE.
Trump is the embodiment of our ugliest darkest fears and worries. He has given voice to the darkness. All he did was make a simple plea to our most basic fears and look what happened. Many many were duped! My heart goes out to all those affected. As a white British male Teacher who has worked all over the Middle East and currently lives in the Middle East, I would like to state clearly that Arabs, Muslims and Islam have unfairly bad press in the Western World. They are warm, generous and exceedingly kind people. I have never experienced such warmth and generosity until I came to the Arab world. Arabs......you rock! If you watch and absorb Western media unquestioningly then you are indoctrinated and as big a part of the problem as Trump. Leave the main land, travel and talk to people and see for yourself. Biggest sympathies to all those affected. Trump has no place in history.
too bad we can't send trump back to whatever planet he came from
You wanna go on this road Trump? Okay, then take things on the right order: every person that is not a Native Anerican (and by that I mean one of the people that were mass murdered for the pleasure of a couple of shity white trashes) must leave the American territory and is forbidden to ever come back there. Ban everyone or ban no one. Give back the land to its true owners and go back on your ancestors lands.
dont worry guys, this dude will go down soon. He is building enemies all around him
Is there someone out there - who is much more smarter than us, has a lot power and influence than us - can stop this madness? He is cruel. I'm crying right now. I wish I could do something beside staring on my monitor reading the article
I feel powerless. All I am doing is reading this and letting this happen. I feel horrible not just that these things are happening to these people, but also me not being able to do anything about this. Is there any sort of way to at least help stop this. ( Y . Y )
"Do you understand the pain we're going through? There is no need to leave us beaten black and blue. " ♬♪ No, but really, according to Trump logic he should be the first one to "go back to England". Not to mention his counter-productive measures putting the USA into state of emergency. People are already protesting all over the world, this is gonna get bigger if he, and whoever allowed him such moves, stays blind.
How many more times? It is NOT a ban on muslims. It's a ban based on a list of terror linked countries (which by the way was created by the Obama administration). Where was the outrage when Obama banned all Iraqi refugees for 6 months (DOUBLE what Trump has ordered) back in 2011? And if your answer can only be "he isn't president anymore" like that erases 8 years of history; 8 years of your life where you probably didn't blink at the very same situation, you've got some screws loose. Another irony - Trump has been president barely a week but that didn't stop you all attacking him before the inauguration. But when it comes to Obama, it doesn't matter anymore right?
I'm from Germany. If i and a lot of my fellow citizens also share our refugee stories we would be banned from this site.
America is not U.S., it's a continent! I'm stuffed with suprematist minds. We should start to say Brazil of America, Canada of America, etc
Are any of you familiar with Thomas Paine's "The Rights of Man"? He's got a lot of good ideas, hint, hint. You'd think for a country founded on revolution, that the citizens of the U.S. would be more familiar with it. Maybe it's all that meddling with the education system - didn't teach history right.
These are so heartbreaking. I am only 13, and I have no say in anything. But, I truly believe that Trump's choices are rather reckless. My best friend is Muslim, and because of this ban, her father may not come home from a trip to Turkey. I feel so bad for her, and everyone else affected by this ban. God bless them.
Why, if some have been here for years, why didn't they become legal? Hmmm
here is something none of you idiots are any one of you citizens you said you lived here for 7 years didn't have time to become a citizen stay where you are
its only until the vetting process can be overhauled. Obama did it other presidents have done it sorry for the inconvenience but OUR security is more important than feelings right now
Obama sign the same executive orders denying illegal immigrants from the same 7 countries but never followed throw. Trump is following throw the his campaign promises and this is why Americans voted him in. Did these individuals come to America legally or illegally??? There's your answer. It doesn't matter if the are nice people if they came here illegally they broke the law!!! And that's on them not the US!! Now if they came to the US legally and followed all procedures to stay in the US this is a problem that should be corrected quickly.
SHUT THE H*LL UP> You all knew about the order BEFORE you went but went anyway. I didn't hear of any of this SH*T when Obama did the same thing in 2011.
You all knew about the order BEFORE you went but went anyway. SHUT THE H*LL UP!
This is really old news. This has been happening for a very long time. Ask why are they blasting the stories now? Not what u think?
What I'm don't understand is why these people have become American citizens by becoming naturalised to that country, then they wouldn't be having this problem
This is sad. There are both good and bad people in this world. One person might kill animals and another might spend their life saving animals. Same goes for everyone. Throwing out every muslim even the innocent ones is not fair.
what troubles me, this site had zero complaints about president barrack obama...and if you think a guy like that didn't have bad policies and did damage, you have ZERO critical thinking skills. now, back to your indignant trump bashing.
Nigel, you actually BLANKED out "homo" in homophobe... are you really, actually, serious?
This is probably the first time I mind having the "kittenificator".
Any single story underlines that to today's problems there are no simple solutions. In fact, these simple solutions will do more bad to innocent people than they do to stop bad people. It is particularly sad that this is only noticed if really harsh action like now is taken. Other, less harsh issues are just accepted, even though they are extremely annoying and again do not contribute anything to solving problems. Anyone still questioning why you cannot bring liquids in containers > 100 ml through airport security? It was a seaminly easy solution to increase security many years ago, and probably even justified for a while. Nowadays it is obsolete, but we got to live with it.
Some if these stories make me suspect that they are being held hostage by the country themselves. Especially Iran. Easy to do and easy to pass blame.
Question: How many have the green card, how many are legal? Just asking, don;t get your panty hose all wadded up.
How many have a green card and if they do, for how long? How many are legal? How many are pushing their visas to the limit and beyond? Just asking, no need to get your panty hose all wadded up.
How many of these people are American citizens ???? If you haven't taken the time to become an American citizen and become a real part of this countries citizenship then Oh well........
I am with you!! #HeadScarfProtest https://www.boredpanda.com/empathy-message-for-people-who-are-affected-by-mr-trumps-executive-order/
The lead story is based on a false narrative. The woman has not been deported. She has been refused re-entry, for 90 days. Unfortunate for her, but it is simply wrong to say she was deported. Disingenuous twisting of facts lends no credibility to the issue.
[img]https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/trump-muslimban-refugee-stories-7-588efb6776ea8__700-1.jpg[/img] [img]https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/825173219103621120-png__700-1.jpg[/img] [img]https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/825457796573454338-png__700-1.jpg[/img] [img]https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/825385797490610176-png__700-1.jpg[/img] [img]https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/trump-muslimban-refugee-stories-8-588f0bc55b482__700-1.jpg[/img] [img]https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/825405243567513600-png__700-1.jpg[/img] Asked their view on Trump? WTF!!! You just banned the Muslim, and what does that make it different. If I said I support him and I won't be deport? GTFOH!!! F**k him!!
All these sob stories of people not getting back into the US, 5years 7 years 10 years here etc, property owners business owners etc. I have a question for you, if you like it here so much why haven't you become a "legal citizen " ?
Its not a muslim ban morons. why these 7 out 50 majority muslim countries???????
It is my understanding that this is a limited time ban. Just like all the others before it. Is that not so? And I realize I'm being nit-picky, but the woman in the first post was not deported. She left the county and was not allowed back in. There is a huge difference. And if she has been here for seven years, why didn't she become a citizen and thus have an American passport?
This absolutely breaks my heart. (P.S I'm not trying to sound racist or anything but if you look back to history, aren't white people like the real immigrants here.) (plus they should start talking about god because if they are actually christians, then they should know god was American).